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For weeks now, there’s been informal signals from the Census Bureau that the redistricting data from the 2020 census could be significantly delayed and on Friday, the Bureau officially announced that Sept. 30 is the expected release date — six months later than what is the norm in a decennial census and two months later than what was anticipated when the survey was re-worked for the pandemic.